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A libertarian news aggregation service.Sat, 01 Aug 2015 17:53:00 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.3By: Scott Gaffhttps://www.libertariannews.org/2012/03/10/social-ownership/#comment-10472
Tue, 13 Mar 2012 11:43:00 +0000http://www.libertariannews.org/?p=12485#comment-10472it seems to me all the attacks waged against Rothbard is a failure to understand him. Praxeology is about not only analyzing a man’s actions to arrive at a wanted satisfaction, or alleviation of uneasiness, but also THE SATISFACTION ITSELF. And they choose to call it an interpretation of history, when it’s a gathering of various sources to make connections empiricism is incapable by definition of seeing. I don’t need a quote by Teddy Judah or J.P. Morgan to see something fishy in the National Banking Act and the Transcontinental Railroad. When you can’t falsify anything Rothbard says, default to “well, that’s only his interpretation.” Mises gave us the textbook for Austrian Economics (and he spent over 100 pages just explaining Praxeology), and Rothbard merely put AE into historical perspective. His work is nothing more than a companion to Mises.

If the left actually bothered to read Human Action instead of outright dismissing it they would soon realize every one of their strawman attacks against Austrian Economics have already been answered by Mises. Even popular arguments raised at the time that are no longer bumper sticker idioms have been answered.

I have actually been going on Policy Mic, and my biggest complaint is the extremist positivism so clouded in ideology that the “pundits” fail to see their own hypocrisy; and telling us “Austrians” how we fail to understand how value is subjective is ridiculous. Praxeology INVENTED subjective-value; only it goes much further than the left could ever grasp with their failed ideology. And then they dismiss the youth as though there’s never been a young liberal who converted to libertarianism late in life, as though its even an argument to begin with. Every argument by a liberal is a matter of convenience.